This time of year often provides us the opportunity to visit and break bread wth family and friends. The smell of turkey roasting! The aroma of the pies! What memories it brings back for many of us! This month we profile some of the women who have made possible those wonderful memories of safe and delicious food: Fannie Farmer, Mary Engle Pennington, Julia Child, Joyce Chen, and Alice Waters. 
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A study done by the Harvard School of Public Health and published in the New England Journal of Medicine found 
that being overweight and obese was the single most important risk factor that predicated who would develop type 2 diabetes. In this column, we profile Ellen Swallow Richards, an early advocate of a healthy lifestyle for women, Jenny Craig, who co-founded the weight loss and nutritional food company that bears her name, and Bernadine Healy, a cardiologist and the first woman to lead the National Institutes of Health.
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Women diagnosed with breast cancer today have many options for treatment and the ability to have a female doctor 
to handle her care. In this month’s column, we feature pioneering women doctors and women who followed in the footsteps of those pioneers.
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As we noted in last month’s column on menopause, many women become outstanding in their field during 
this special time in their lives. In this column, we highlight four Nobel Laureates in the sciences.
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For many women, the onset of menopause occurs around the time that their children leave home. In this month’s 
column, we profile four women who made significant political contributions after the “change of life.”
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Many readers of this column work out regularly. In this column, we profile women who brought new ideas about 
health and wellness to the forefront.
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